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Secret documents that appear to detail American national security secrets on Ukraine, the Middle East and China have surfaced online. https://archive.ph/xRch4
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The tech industry layoffs are basically an instance of social contagion, in which companies imitate what others are doing. If you look for reasons for why companies do layoffs, the reason is that everybody else is doing it. https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/ Top EU foreign-policy official Josep Borrell admitted the West’s new cold war is not a battle of “democracies vs authoritarians”. This is an economic conflict. this is a good summary of the farce that is the summit for democracy https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2022/10/27/eu-cold-war-democracy-authoritarian/ US employers spend more than $400 million per year on ‘union-avoidance’ consultants to bolster their union-busting efforts Samsung plans to reduce chip production after experiencing a 96% drop in profits https://www.reuters.com/technology/samsung-elec-q1-profit-likely-plunged-96-chip-glut-slashes-prices-2023-04-06/ Projected Collapse of Crucial Antarctic Current Met With Media Silence https://fair.org/home/projected-collapse-of-crucial-antarctic-current-met-with-media-silence/ Looks like cracks are starting to form in the transatlantic partnership. US is likely to take an increasingly hawkish stance on China, but it would be an economic suicide for EU to follow suit. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/07/us/politics/china-us-europe.html Saudi-Omani delegation to hold ceasefire talks with Houthis in Yemen’s Sanaa https://english.alarabiya.net/News/saudi-arabia/2023/04/07/Saudi-Omani-delegation-to-hold-ceasefire-talks-with-Houthis-in-Yemen-s-Sanaa-Sources Vatican decree called the "Doctrine of Discovery" gave Europeans the right to steal everything from indigenous people in newly "discovered" land, and that it's still a core part of US law. Ruth Bader Ginsburg invoked it in 2005. Even after 1.8 million bombs were removed. At this rate it will still take another 1,860 more years to remove all the bombs in Laos. http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2023-04/06/content_85214023.htm From 1964 to 1973, the US dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs on Laos – about as many as there were people in the tiny Southeast Asian nation. America dropped more bombs on Laos during the Vietnam War than on Germany and Japan combined during World War II.
A third of organizations admit to covering up data breaches https://venturebeat.com/security/a-third-of-organizations-admit-to-covering-up-data-breaches/ STRV -- A radiation hard RISC-V microprocessor for high-energy physics applications  contrary to conventional wisdom, lack of capital account openness may not fully prevent the RMB from playing a stronger role as an international and reserve currency https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/renminbis-unconventional-route-reserve-currency-status |